Exercise Cold Response of NATO

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• The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) is undertaking a large-scale military exercise in Norway code named Cold Response 2022. The military exercise is organised by Norway every two years.

• About 30,000 troops from 27 countries from Europe and North America are participating in the exercise which are being held in March and April 2022.

• The exercise assumed significance after the Russian invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022.

• The NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has announced that he will visit Norway on 25 March 2022  to witness the exercise just after the NATO, EU, G-7  summit meeting in Brussels on 24 March 2022.  

Important for Exam 

NATO

It is a military alliance which was set up after the signing of the Washington Treaty on 4 April 1949 in Washington , United States of America. 

• It was set up to combat threats from the communist countries led by the Soviet Union in Europe. After the breakup of the Soviet Union ,Russia is considered as the  successor state of the  Soviet Union and  Russia is seen as a threat by NATO.

• Initially there were 12 member countries but at present there are 30 member countries.

• Headquarters of the NATO : Brussels , Belgium 

• Member : Albania, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Montenegro, Netherlands, North Macedonia, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States.